Their reviews aren't frequent. This is more of a "we ask around the org for what everyone liked this year." It's a consistently good list year after year.
Interesting that they didn't include Ninja Gaiden 4 in an otherwise incredibly exhaustive list, but apart from that I think this is as close to "every notable 2025 release, summarised and collected" as you're going to get.
No Avowed or Outer Worlds 2 either, which are high on my personal list. And before someone wants to tell me they were divisive, they both reviewed far better than the likes of To a T or Lost Records.
I forgot about those because I never played them myself and honestly this year has been awash with so many good releases that they kind of slipped my mind. But you're absolutely right!
It saddens me that Sektori came out too late to be on these lists, because they are effective marketing for indies and it's one of the finest games ever made. It works flawlessly, is Linux friendly and is polished to a shine. It's very opinionated design, but the opinions are in my opinion all correct and the overall game is a wonderful sequel to Geometry Wars. The only thing it's missing right now is 2-player (at least) coop.
Really nice list and well laid out too. Currently downloading the demo for Revenge of the Savage Planet from it :)
(and have now bought it. Such a fun game!)
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Zarxrax@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 260d
NPR reviews games now?
Ashtear@piefed.social · 28 pts · 260d
Their reviews aren't frequent. This is more of a "we ask around the org for what everyone liked this year." It's a consistently good list year after year.
celeste@kbin.earth · 17 pts · 260d
Search on their site shows best of year lists going back to like 2011
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 260d
That's a surprisingly deep list.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 259d
Interesting that they didn't include Ninja Gaiden 4 in an otherwise incredibly exhaustive list, but apart from that I think this is as close to "every notable 2025 release, summarised and collected" as you're going to get.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 259d
No Avowed or Outer Worlds 2 either, which are high on my personal list. And before someone wants to tell me they were divisive, they both reviewed far better than the likes of To a T or Lost Records.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 259d
I forgot about those because I never played them myself and honestly this year has been awash with so many good releases that they kind of slipped my mind. But you're absolutely right!
zecg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 258d
It saddens me that Sektori came out too late to be on these lists, because they are effective marketing for indies and it's one of the finest games ever made. It works flawlessly, is Linux friendly and is polished to a shine. It's very opinionated design, but the opinions are in my opinion all correct and the overall game is a wonderful sequel to Geometry Wars. The only thing it's missing right now is 2-player (at least) coop.
Novamdomum@fedia.io · 1 pts · 256d
Really nice list and well laid out too. Currently downloading the demo for Revenge of the Savage Planet from it :) (and have now bought it. Such a fun game!)
Kolossos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 258d
No Factorio: Space Age on the list? The factory must grow…
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · -21 pts · 260d
Didn't bother going further as soon as I saw "Interactive list" 😮💨
idoit@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 260d
I mean it’s just filters so you can get a more relevant list for yourself. The PC-only filter was useful for me.